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A Dandenong South solar-panel company has been fined a thumping $3 million and its director $450,000 for “unconscionably” preying on […]

Advertisement Thousands of Victorian homeowners having solar power installed are being told by the state’s distributors they will not be able to feed electricity into the network, as a rising tide of sustainable power hits the energy grid. The block on new solar power feeding into Victoria’s grid comes despite a decade of warnings by regulators to the state’s power distributors they need to spend money on upgrading their networks. Matt Pilsbury switched on his new $8200 solar system. But he, like thousands of others across Melbourne, are being told by energy distributors they w...

Victoria’s rapid rise in renewables to slash prices, threaten coal We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement Victoria is experiencing an influx of new wind and solar farms after a rapid four-fold increase in applications for generation licences since 2017, slashing daytime power prices and adding to the pressure engulfing coal-fired power stations. The state energy regulator has faced a 300 per cent surge in applications from renewable energy developers over four years and says it expects the pipeline of n...

20 January 2021 Victoria – the Australian state hardest hit by Covid-19 in 2020 – has rounded out the pandemic-themed year with a couple of encouraging home energy storage milestones, including the biggest month for solar battery rebate uptake, and the biggest month for battery installations. The latest data on the state’s Solar Homes program shows that there was a record total of 429 applications for the solar battery rebate in the second-last month of the year, in November, and 183 home battery installations in December. Not bad for a year described earlier this month by industry anal...